Details

Subjects:

Divination.
India.
Rites and ceremonies -- India.
Rites and ceremonies.
Hindu astrology.
Hindu astronomy.
Divination -- India.
Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Tables (documents)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript consists of tables of abbreviations (representing planets and other astrological phenomena) and numbers based on calculations for predicting the future of a married couple.

Notes:

Title from note in margin (f. 1r).
Written in 11-12 lines per leaf.
4 leaves foliated 1-4, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line; tables drawn with single red line.

Cited in:

Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 5273 (UP 1865).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1865.

OCLC:

946537624